RE: PDF Limitations?

I'd have to disagree.

I routinely do PDF of spool files in the 800 page range.  Interesting, because 
of the PDF compression capabilities, the PDF version is less than 1MB while the 
text version is 4.2MB.  Additionally, since the program that does the report is 
old, the text version of it contains double printing (where the original writer 
wanted the text to be bold,) whereas the PDF doesn't have that problem.

I use Ariadne Software's CoolSpools tool to create my PDFs.  
http://www.ariadnesoftware.com/


Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> For regular spool files, I will usually specify the output to 
> TXT format, 
> especially if they are large. If they are small, and I don't want the 
> intended receiver to modify the data, I will use PDF. 
> For Invoices and Statements, I always use PDF, but usually 
> those will be 
> less than 30 pages, most of the time they're 1-2 pages.
> 
> I think that more than 1000 pages is probably just a bit much 
> to be trying 
> to manage in a spool file (PDF) anyway. If you've got that 
> much data, and 
> it needs to be kept, you may want to consider sending the 
> actual data in a 
> CSV or using a spool archiving utility. We use Robot/Reports 
> to archive 
> our spool files. It also has the capability to create PDF, 
> but normally we 
> use SPLTOOL mostly for that.
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> The biggest spool file on our production system right now is 
> a 3,629 page 
> joblog.  And, it just happens to be a joblog from one of our 
> Infoprint 
> Server writers.  I'll shoot that one on to you.
> On our development system I do have a 107,109 page simple 
> spool file if 
> you need a bigger test.
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> I guess I should have read the fine print.  I believe that 
> they both have
> an intermediate step that converts the spool file to a .tiff image.  I
> wonder if that's due to overlays or other characteristics of 
> AFPDS spool
> files.  Maybe that's why the conversion programs that I've 
> seen so far 
> tend
> to differentiate between SCS and AFPDS.  I'm trying the 
> CVTSPLSTMF from
> MMAIL right now and it's been chugging away for a few minutes.
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> What about Infoprint Server?  Does anybody know if it has a 
> limit on AFPDS
> printer files?
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> I dunno about AFPTOOl, but CVTSPLFPDF says it supports up to 
> 2 pages...
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> > Since PDF's seem to be the topic of the day...
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> > Is there a size limit to PDF's?  I've been giving trial 
> runs to AFPTOOL
> by
> > Brad Stone and CVTSPLFPDF from MMAIL at 
> http://www-922.ibm.com/.  They
> both
> > seem to do a good job but they both had problems when I 
> tried to convert
> a
> > spool file that was 8660 pages.  Was that too much?  I've 
> only done a
> > minimal amount of testing so it could be my fault.  Granted, most 
> reports
> > that we would be interested in converting wouldn't be 
> nearly that big 
> but
> I
> > thought that I'd try this since our accounting department runs some 
> large
> > year-end reports that they want to keep until the end of time.
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